Monday, May 19, 2008

Back From Hiatus - With a Ph.D.

After an unannounced hiatus, I'm now ready to resume posting! Many of you probably knew I have been dealing with a dissertation over the last month - submitting a final copy to my committee, preparing for an oral defense, and then working on revisions. Today, at 11:45 a.m., I received final approval of my document from the graduate school. Which means - I'm done! Thursday is the hooding ceremony.

So I've a few posts that have been on the back burner, that will be up here soon, hopefully. I'm first going to finish the "Data and the Open Source Paleontologist" series, and then move on to some of my experiences with crafting a dissertation primarily using open source software.

8 comments:

Mike Taylor said...

Fantastic news! Many congratulations, Andy. So, what next? :-)

Mike Keesey said...

Congrats, Doc!

Andy said...

Thanks! I'm on to a paleo curator position very soon - I probably won't blog about it here directly (for various reasons), but I'm very excited, to say the least. :-)

ReBecca Hunt-Foster said...

Congrats!!

Anonymous said...

Congrats Andy! :)

Simon

Matt BK said...

Congratulations!

Anonymous said...

Andy -- Congratulations! Can I say "I remember when..." ? You've come a long way and I'm proud of you. Where's your curatorship? - Kraig, kderstle@uno.edu

Lorin said...

Andy, congrats my friend, always knew you would shoot to the top of this field and quickly. You and Sarah will be happy in Cali, big diff. from SD and NY that is for sure. I am very proud of you and for what you have accomplished, again congrats Dr. Farke!